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Show or county: proper community planning-, in face of an immense population growth, is' altogether lacking. To appreciate our common interests, wc might watch the traffic on Highland Drive any morning or evening. Along its too-narrow roadbed, huge numbers of cars pass back and forth every day. Some of those people live in Sugar House, others in all the other communities of the southeast, but they all suffer suf-fer from the same poor roads and traffic hazards. One of the outstanding opportunities to solve some of our major problems and stimulate some intelligent planning presented pre-sented itself recently when a group of organization leaders got together to form an association of southeast clubs. If this plan develops, it will be our first chance to present a united front to the city, county and state officials who administer our affairs. In the meantime, let each one of us do a little planning for our own neighborhoods. Let's 'ask ourselves what we can do tx make our section more desirable and keep it that way. A little hard-headed thinking and practical planning on our parts right now may well spell the difference between an ideal community section of a beautiful city or just another blighted area 20 years from now. EDITORIAL It's Time We Do Some Thinking IT IS TIME that we all started doing a little hard thinking about the community in which we live. The meacing situation which gets worse as the days go by is that' our beloved southeast section is the focal point of one of the biggest population growths in the West. And it's growing grow-ing without planning. All we have to do is to open our eyes a little. What we see does not make us happy about the future. Right now, the southeast section is a desirable place in which to live. As a result, subdivisions are springing up all over, and people are moving out here in droves. And we're glad to have them. The commercial growth is just as rapid as the residential and just as haphazard. But what about the future? How will things look 20 years from now? Do we have any assurance that our homes, our property, our businesses bus-inesses wiil not deteriorate because of continued poor planning? The artficial boundary separating the city from the county poses many of our most difficult problems. It means that we "straddle" the city-county line, thus making us subject to two unrelated governmental bodies who dwell in the same building in downtown Salt Lake. In many sections of the southeast, neighbors find it necessary to send their children to entirely different school districts, dis-tricts, because some live in the county and some live in the city. People living in the vicinity of Emigration Canyon must send their children all the way out to Olympus Junior High in Hol-laday. Hol-laday. Houses in the city have a sewer. Down the street, the county resident uses a septic tank. The city has zoning ordinances, the county does not. But one thing is very evident whether we live in the city |